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This is a very common McCarthyite propaganda point, and I think it's important that we deconstruct it. We presumably live in a Democracy but this democracies v

This is a very common McCarthyite propaganda point, and I think it's important that we deconstruct it. We presumably live in a Democracy but this democracies voters cannot be trusted to read, view or engage with content that might undercut the preferred narratives of the mother country. Therefore, anyone arguing for this right must be under the communist spell or worse on the payroll. Low IQ tbh

libertine 2y ago
In Democracies, there are laws in place to protect voters. Here's very simple example to help you understand this: if you have someone on a foreign state payroll, they have to disclose they're being paid for by a foreign state, and people have the right to know that.[0] You have the example of Tenet Media being paid by Russia Today to hire American right-wing influencers to promote Russian talking points, covertly - that's illegal.[0] It just looks like people have a fundamental misunderstanding of a very basic concept about what Free Speech is. Free Speech isn't the freedom to dupe voters, because voters may have the capacity to discern misinformation from information. Even if you go by your caustic remark, yes, a lot of voters can't discern misinformation. That's why there are laws in place. [0]https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/12/guerrilla-projects-russia-revels-in-us-allegations-of-media-warfare https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/12/guerrilla-projects-...